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Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1995

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1995

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Double Jeopardy Jan 1995

Double Jeopardy

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Supreme Court's Land Use Decisions, Hon. Leon D. Lazer Jan 1995

The Supreme Court's Land Use Decisions, Hon. Leon D. Lazer

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Employment Discrimination: Recent Developments In The Supreme Court, Eileen Kaufman Jan 1995

Employment Discrimination: Recent Developments In The Supreme Court, Eileen Kaufman

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Anonymous Campaign Literature And The First Amendment, Erika Lietzan Jan 1995

Anonymous Campaign Literature And The First Amendment, Erika Lietzan

Faculty Publications

Presently, forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have statutes that require the disclosure of some party's identity (for example, an author or a sponsor) on political literature pertaining to elections. The most common explanations given for these statutes are that they deter fraud and libel in the election arena and that they provide valuable information to the voters. Because these statutes regulate core political speech, however, they necessarily implicate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although campaign disclosure laws have been both struck down and sustained by state courts reviewing appealed convictions, the decisions have been disappointingly …


Counter-Demonstration As Protected Speech: Finding The Right To Confrontation In Existing First Amendment Law, Kevin F. O'Neill, R. Vasvari Jan 1995

Counter-Demonstration As Protected Speech: Finding The Right To Confrontation In Existing First Amendment Law, Kevin F. O'Neill, R. Vasvari

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Accordingly, this Article is aimed at disentangling lines of precedent that are all too frequently entwined by urging an analysis of public protest cases that distinguishes among the four regulatory players. Thus, this Article devotes separate sections to the regulatory roles of legislators,16 administrators,17 judges,18 and police,19 with an introductory section on the doctrinal bedrock in this field: the public forum doctrine.20


The First Amendment And The National Information Infrastructure, Fred H. Cate Jan 1995

The First Amendment And The National Information Infrastructure, Fred H. Cate

Articles by Maurer Faculty

What the First Amendment status of electronic information should be is a fundamental question which must be addressed in any attempt to arrive at appropriate legal standards to protect the multifarious interests of the users of cyberspace. Yet, despite its importance, the First Amendment has largely been ignored in the debate surrounding what sort of legal framework should control the emerging National Information Infrastructure. Professor Cate surveys the current terrain of First Amendment jurisprudence and describes the different analytical approaches which may be taken. Doctrinal anomalies such as the law of common carriage indicate that at times the courts have …


N.O.W. V. Scheidler: Rico Meets The First Amendment, Craig M. Bradley Jan 1995

N.O.W. V. Scheidler: Rico Meets The First Amendment, Craig M. Bradley

Articles by Maurer Faculty

A look at the controversial N.O.W. v. Scheidler case.


Free Speech: The Status Of The First Amendment, Martin B. Margulies Jan 1995

Free Speech: The Status Of The First Amendment, Martin B. Margulies

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Legislating Against Hate In New York: Bias Crimes And The Lesbian And Gay Community, Martin S. Zwerling Jan 1995

Legislating Against Hate In New York: Bias Crimes And The Lesbian And Gay Community, Martin S. Zwerling

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


New York's Son Of Sam Law: Alive And Well Today, Steven P. Vargas Jan 1995

New York's Son Of Sam Law: Alive And Well Today, Steven P. Vargas

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1995

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Initiative Petition Reforms And The First Amendment, Emily Calhoun Jan 1995

Initiative Petition Reforms And The First Amendment, Emily Calhoun

Publications

No abstract provided.


Defending Pornography: Free Speech & The Fight For Women’S Rights, Nadine Strossen Jan 1995

Defending Pornography: Free Speech & The Fight For Women’S Rights, Nadine Strossen

Books

The newest attacks on the First Amendment and on free expression have come from a vocal and influential segment of the feminist movement that has launched a successful - and puritanical - crusade against "pornography" as the root of discrimination and violence against women. But, as Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, forcefully argues, this view of sexuality as inherently dangerous does profound damage to human rights in general, and to women's rights in particular. In Defending Pornography, Strossen shows that, since the late 1970s, a new and startling alliance has been fused between "procensorship" feminists, most …


Authors, Editors, And Uncommon Carriers: Identifying The "Speaker" Within The New Media, Michael I. Meyerson Jan 1995

Authors, Editors, And Uncommon Carriers: Identifying The "Speaker" Within The New Media, Michael I. Meyerson

All Faculty Scholarship

First Amendment analysis has historically depended on whether a party is a speaker, an editor, or a carrier. With communications technology rapidly evolving, determining which category is appropriate becomes increasingly complex, and ascertaining the First Amendment protections that are applied to various actors in the process of diffusing ideas becomes difficult. This article looks to the historical treatment of the First Amendment rights of speakers, editors, and distributors. This article traces the Supreme Court’s treatment of speech regulations on new technologies, from telegraph and telephone regulations to the seminal Turner Broadcast System, Inc. v. FCC case that created rules for …


The Sensitive Society, James F. Fitzpatrick Dec 1994

The Sensitive Society, James F. Fitzpatrick

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


A Law Antecedent And Paramount, Fred H. Cate Dec 1994

A Law Antecedent And Paramount, Fred H. Cate

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Commentary On Adrian Cronauer's "The Fairness Doctrine", Robert P. Rhodes Oct 1994

Commentary On Adrian Cronauer's "The Fairness Doctrine", Robert P. Rhodes

Federal Communications Law Journal

Symposium: The Transformation of Television News


The First Amendment And The Protection Of Unfair Speech, Barbara Mcdowell Oct 1994

The First Amendment And The Protection Of Unfair Speech, Barbara Mcdowell

Federal Communications Law Journal

Symposium: The Transformation of Television News


The Fairness Doctrine: A Solution In Search Of A Problem, Adrian Cronauer Oct 1994

The Fairness Doctrine: A Solution In Search Of A Problem, Adrian Cronauer

Federal Communications Law Journal

The "Fairness Doctrine" refers to a former policy of the Federal Communications Commission wherein a broadcast station which presented one viewpoint on a controversial public issue had to afford the opposing viewpoint an opportunity to be heard. The FCC ceased to enforce the doctrine in 1987, reasoning that the doctrine actually decreased the viewpoints heard by discouraging broadcasters from covering controversial issues out of fear of censure by the FCC. The Author explores the historical development of the Fairness Doctrine and examines the flaws with the different rationales upon which the doctrine is based. The Autho concludes that today's marketplace …


Fairness And The Public Trustee Concept: Time To Move On, Henry Geller Oct 1994

Fairness And The Public Trustee Concept: Time To Move On, Henry Geller

Federal Communications Law Journal

Symposium: The Transformation of Television News


Virtual Constitutions: The Creation Of Rules For Governing Private Networks, Michael I. Meyerson Oct 1994

Virtual Constitutions: The Creation Of Rules For Governing Private Networks, Michael I. Meyerson

All Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses the legal issues involving the owners of private computer networks. These issues include public/private network distinctions, First Amendment free speech issues, liability for computer network owners for improper speech posted on their networks, and anti-trust questions. The article analyzes the complexities that result from different forms of network ownership and the relationship of such networks to governmental entities.


The First Amendment's Challenge Function And The Confusion In The Supreme Court's Contemporary Free Exercise Jurisprudence, Marci A. Hamilton Oct 1994

The First Amendment's Challenge Function And The Confusion In The Supreme Court's Contemporary Free Exercise Jurisprudence, Marci A. Hamilton

Articles

No abstract provided.


The Partial Republican, John O. Mcginnis Jul 1994

The Partial Republican, John O. Mcginnis

Articles

No abstract provided.


A Critique Of An Illegal Conduct Limitation On The Reporters' Privilege Not To Testify, Leslie A. Warren Jun 1994

A Critique Of An Illegal Conduct Limitation On The Reporters' Privilege Not To Testify, Leslie A. Warren

Federal Communications Law Journal

The First Amendment is commonly interpreted to allow reporters a qualified privilege not to testify. By compelling testimony only where the party requesting the information meets the elements of a three-part test, a court balances the interests of the requesting party with those of the reporter. The court in United States v. Sanusi applied this traditional test and found that the defendant met the elements. However, the court also added a new restriction on the privilege. This Note argues that the additional limitation, requiring that the court be confident that the privilege not be "justifying otherwise illegal conduct," is an …


R.A.V. V. City Of St. Paul: The Continuing Confusion Of The Fighting Words Doctrine, Melody L. Hurdle May 1994

R.A.V. V. City Of St. Paul: The Continuing Confusion Of The Fighting Words Doctrine, Melody L. Hurdle

Vanderbilt Law Review

Communication contributes to the marketplace of ideasI which is the only way to promote the discovery of truth in society. The importance of communication has led the United States Supreme Court to herald freedom of expression as "the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." Indeed, the Court protects few other constitutional rights with such fervor. First Amendment protection is not absolute, however, and the United States Supreme Court consistently has asserted that certain forms or classes of expression may be regulated without violating the Constitution. Generally speaking, the Court has carved exceptions to First Amendment …


A Matter Of Opinion: Milkovich Four Years Later, Kathryn D. Sowle Jan 1994

A Matter Of Opinion: Milkovich Four Years Later, Kathryn D. Sowle

Articles

No abstract provided.


The First Amendment: When The Government Must Make Content-Based Choices, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 1994

The First Amendment: When The Government Must Make Content-Based Choices, Erwin Chemerinsky

Cleveland State Law Review

Thus, I focus my attention on the problem of the First Amendment when the government must make content-based choices. I want to divide my remarks into four parts. I begin by reviewing the traditional bedrock rule of the First Amendment: The government cannot regulate speech based on its content. Second, I identify a broad range of cases where this rule cannot apply because the government must make content-based choices. Third, I suggest that the usual First Amendment principles are not helpful in analyzing these cases. Finally, I offer some initial thoughts about directions for dealing with this problem.


Feminist Jurisprudence And Free Speech Theory, Susan H. Williams Jan 1994

Feminist Jurisprudence And Free Speech Theory, Susan H. Williams

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.